An individual's role set consists of a variety of different roles (Biddle, 1979; Madsen & Hammond, 2005). Parent, spouse, student, and even sports fan, all constitute roles within one's role set. Fulfilling role demands requires time, energy,...

This dissertation is an analysis of Italian late medieval and Renaissance peoples’ response to the Madonna lactans image. Although the images that comprise this type are similar in that Mary holds Christ at her breast, they vary widely in...

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Great Britain--History--16th century; Great Britain--History--17th century

Of all the arts drama is the most democratic. Other forms of artistic and aesthetic expression, literature, music, painting, may be cultivated in solitude. Not so the drama. It is demanded by the public; produced for the public and unless it is...

Many spectators, including men, women, and children, at an air show at Louisville's Bowman Field. The spectators are standing in a row several people deep in a grassy field with the grass in front worn bare in two streaks. Behind the people there...

Kentucky Derby crowd in boxes at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 4, 1935. Below a shadow, the crowd stands from two levels of railed boxes; the upper rail is ornate and the lower rail is simple. Below the boxes, more spectators stand...

Kentucky Derby grandstand crowd at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1936. Most of the smiling crowd on the ground stands, often leaning over the fence, which has one rail and is filled in with chicken wire. In front of the fence are...

Kentucky Derby grandstand crowd at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1936. Most of the smiling crowd on the ground stands, often leaning over the fence, which has one rail and is filled in with chicken wire. In front of the fence are...

1936 Derby grandstand crowd at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1936. Some spectators sit above and most stand shoulder to shoulder on the ground behind a fence outside the track. Across the track, there is also a smaller crowd at the...

Evelyn Lee Cook Ansley Otte, the second wife of Commonwealth Attorney W. Clarke Otte of Louisville, Kentucky, sitting amongst the court spectators. The photograph is damaged along the edges and discolored with age. Stamped on back of image:...

Spectators at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, 1929. A crowd of mostly men wear suits mills around shoulder to shoulder in a space between outdoor buildings and spilling underneath the pillars of some of the buildings. The 1929 Kentucky Derby...

Performers both backstage (behind the replica of Jean Thomas' "Traipsin' Woman Cabin") and onstage, and spectators on the grass, at the American Folk Song Festival at Carter Caves State Park in Olive Hill, Kentucky, June 1969. Title...

A man wearing a top hat drives an open horse-drawn carriage with four male passengers on a cobblestone street. They are probably in a parade because spectators appear to be lined up under the awning, and on the curb, behind them. Title supplied by...

Spectators in grandstands are focused on people and horses gathered in front of the stands, perhaps for an award ceremony. Probably the same State Fair event as seen in ULPA 1982.01.728.p but on a different section of the track at Churchill Downs....

Woodblock prints of, from left: Yawning child in nightdress, holding candlestick; woman and monkey riding horse along cobblestone street, past spectators (man in top hat and two children; two young men); flowers planted in ground; number 1.

Four University of Louisville cheerleaders kneel on the floor at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Mideast Regional Tournament in Evanston, Illinois. There is a crowd of spectators behind them. The UofL basketball team defeated Michigan...

"One of the ironies of the anti-market strategies of certain Land Artists was that to view their works other than via photographs spectators had to travel large distances. This could be costly, especially when specialized transport was...

The pool at Reservoir Park in Louisville, Kentucky, is shown with crowds of people either swimming or watching the swimmers. Cars are parked along a curved road edging the pool. The pool itself is encircled by a sidewalk and wood fences and...

Two teams, each composed of 4 Native American men (Sioux versus Arapahoe), wearing buckskin, breechcloth, and leggings, play tug of war before a crowd of spectators, including two Native Americans wearing feathered warbonnets. Such "living...

Arsenal of the Kentucky National Guard in Frankfort, Kentucky, engulfed in flames as fire services try to put out the fire and spectators look on. The arsenal caught on fire during the night of June 30, 1933, after an explosion on the second floor....